Updated: 30 Jan 2021, 15:57
CONFESSION time: When I read about grandma of three Sharon Hawkins, from the US, dating a man 28 years younger than her, my heart was incandescent with . . . envy.
This clever lass, who is 50, smartly lowered the age range on her dating app to 19 in search of a new man and — Bingo! She met Perry, who is 22. They now plan to marry.
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Ulrika pictured in 1994 at the height of her Gladiators fameCredit: Rex Features
I can well do without the marriage bit, but the idea of a younger man is perilously appealing.
It’s precarious because of all the potential for judgment, the probable public outrage and its capacity for causing upset on the domestic front.